Israel's unilateral disengagement plan

It has been ten years since the population of Gush Katif were ordered to move from their homes. The enforced evacuation was an agonizing episode that has been recorded with tears in the annals of Israeli history. Soldiers were forced to execute a plan with which they disagreed and images of IDF soldiers confronting Israeli residents during the evacuation were heartbreaking. Even today. Many residents were religious, but there were countless secular Jews. The community of 8,600 were confident that

not afraid of living there. They claimed that this land was given to them in the Torah and that all of Israel had their problems so they would not feel safer in the center of Tel-Aviv. In 2004, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced The Disengagement Plan. This plan stated that the residents of Gush Katif and other villages throughout Gaza would be expelled from their homes and their land would be given to the palestinians. The government hoped that this would reduce fighting between the

“Either because they were not convinced that the evacuation was a crucial mission or simply because they did not want to detract from their ongoing operations by spending energy on it.” (Laufer) Though he was disappointed in what he found he devised a plan to get the personnel he needed. First he instructed his team leaders to identify those least suitable for the mission, second he asked all of the feeder units for highly qualified troops which was met with resistance and lastly he went to his superior

Running head: LEADERSHIP STYLES IN A PEACEFUL EVACUATION 2 According to Vance Packard, leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something that you are convinced should be done (Lewis, 2003). Leadership is a pertinent part of project management. James Lewis (2003) says leadership is not a position; it’s the ability to gain commitment from people. According to Professor Warren G. Bennis, “Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right”

Before exiting through the gates of Kusufim Crossing, the head of Israel’s mission in Gaza, Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi said, “The responsibility for whatever takes place inside falls upon the [Palestinian] Authority.” Later that evening, Major-General Dan Harel signed a declaration nullifying the 6 June 1967 decree

2) Hamas won legislative elections but lost the presidential election and it is the president who conducts negotiations. The reason was the electorate's disgruntlement with Fatah's corruption. Perhaps that is also a component of its failure to make peace? ME> Public opinion polls among Palestinians consistently show high levels of support for the two-state solution, which averaged 82-87% in 2000-07, while 73-77% favored reconciliation between the two peoples and 66-71% joint economic ventures between

intent of establishing a homeland there (Lesch and Tschirgi 5). With this immigration, Israel’s detractors have claimed that the Jews who did come to Palestine displaced those who were already there. According to Alan Dershowitz’s A Case for Israel, Professor Mohammad Abu Laila of the Al-Azhar University in Cairo has said that the Jews stole the land. M. Shahid Alam has said that the Zionists conceived their plan for a colonial-setter state and expelled the Palestinians. The reality of the situation

In the Middle East, European colonialism obliterated Arab sovereignty through its political and economic takeover. After gaining independence, the epicenter of perceived encroachment of Arab autonomy by the West was found in the Jewish state of Israel. Furthermore, the United States’ military support of Israel was also seen as an extension of colonialism. The colonial legacy of the British and the French occupations in the Middle East led to the belief that Israel was another imperial force that

water supplies to the areas around the Apartheid Wall is a serious concern. A number of water wells will be lost to communities near the Apartheid Wall. ” Israel was able to use geographic advantages that it acquired as a consequence of the “unilateral disengagement,” which essentially choked Gaza into full submission. This was aided when the victory of Hamas in the January 2006 elections and the subsequent financial and political blockade initiated against the Palestinians by the United States, European

Modern political discourse in the United States, particularly in the realm of foreign policy (whether it occurs in the academic community, political institutions, or in the press), has increasingly become more focused on the Middle East region. The United States continues view the Middle East as an area of instability in which the country’s economic interests, particularly oil, are often threatened and at risk. The on-going Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has lasted over sixty years, is a prime